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They began to talk of this race as of something that might have been. Then a man cried out excitedly, "Yonder she comes now! She's got him, too! That girl don't give up she don't know how!" Burton saw her galloping toward them, and with her the wild dog. "Is time up?" she panted, reining in her pony. "Five minutes!" said Burton. "He was on birds!" she gasped. "But he was off the course.
My first impulse was to gallop in amongst them, and order them to surrender; but my three men were still twenty or thirty yards behind, and, as my only chance of success was by surprise, I thought the risk of the delay too great, and, reining back my horse, I made a signal to my men to retire, which, from the soil being a deep sand, we were enabled to do without the slightest noise; but all the while I had my ears pricked up, expecting every instant to find a ball whistling through my body; however, as none of them afterwards shewed themselves past the end of the cottage, I concluded that they had remained ignorant of my visit.
But please, I don't think we'd better talk about it only just for you to say that you forgive me. I had to tell you for that, you see." Then the once carefully proper Willard Holmes did a thing that would have astonished his most intimate eastern friends beyond expression. Reining his horse close to El Capitan he held out his hand to Barbara. "Shake, pard! You're the squarest girl I ever knew."
As horses very much dislike reining back, I would caution the rider not to disgust her animal by continuing it for too long a time. He should be occasionally reined back a couple of times for four or five paces, and after each rein back should be allowed to go forward, and he should be rewarded for his obedience by a few pats on the neck and some words of encouragement.
Startled by the sound, the Corporal's horse made off full tear down the hill, and carried him several paces beyond his master, ere he had power to stop its career. But Walter reining up his better managed steed, looked round for the enemy, nor looked in vain. Three men started from the hedge with a simultaneous shout.
'Precisely. She looked at him, with her puzzling smile. 'But you couldn't have understood his position when you married him? 'No, I didn't altogether. But I should really like to remind you that I am not in the witness box. 'I think you owe me the truth! he said, passionately. 'What do you call the truth? she asked, reining in her horse and meeting his eyes straight.
They stood watching the grand scene with delight for a short time, and then, crossing the river by a broad, shallow ford, held their way homeward, along the eastern and more level bank, sometimes reining up their horses to gaze into the tremendous glen below them, and watch the river crawling on through many impediments, and beginning to show a golden light in its larger pools beneath the sloping, westering sun.
I knew this time I loved for a good reason. The band of nature the bond of blood connected us! But this is not the place or time to pluck leaves, and compare them, from our genealogical tree. The major has succeeded in reining in his horse, but, who cares? the old farmhouse stood a siege in the Great Napoleon's time and could mock at him now.
Yet I fancied, and others aver, that they saw the leader of an approaching party mounted on a white horse and reining up in the pathway; others, again, declare that he drew a pistol from the holster and took aim; others heard the words, "Charge in upon them! Surround them!"
With an effort she succeeded in reining in her own animal, and while she sat in the saddle, trembling and anxious, there came another flash of lightning and she saw the rider's face. The rider was a cowboy. She had distinctly seen the leathern chaps on his legs; the broad hat, the scarf at his throat. Doubt and fear assailed her.
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